KEY POINTS

• Donald Trump and his sons launched a cryptocurrency platform called World Liberty Financial.
• The platform focuses on decentralized finance (Defi), allowing users to bypass banks.
• 63 percent of the tokens will be available for public purchase, while 37 percent will be shared between the team and the user reward.

Late last night, on the 16th of September 2024, Donald Trump, along with his sons and several entrepreneurs, launched a cryptocurrency platform.

They did not give in-depth details about the project. They only made a two-hour online presentation, convincing people to buy digital tokens that would give them a voting right in the platform’s decision process.

The event was successful despite an attempt to murder Trump at his golf club on Sunday in Florida.

World Liberty Financial: A new decentralized finance platform

The cryptocurrency platform called World Liberty Financial has a goal to provide services through decentralized finance, Defi. Defi is a mechanism that eradicates intermediaries like banks during financial transactions.

Instead of going through the bank or other intermediaries, users will be able to borrow or lend cryptocurrencies from one another directly. This system is similar to platforms like Aave.

During the launch of the digital tokens, Donald Trump Jr. described the event as the beginning of a financial revolution. Other platform leaders, Zachary Foklman and Chase Hero, who are well-known cryptocurrency entrepreneurs, emphasized the use of stablecoins.

As reported by The Street Journal, stablecoins are not volatile like other digital currencies. Stablecoins are supported by fiat currencies like the US dollar, thereby creating a more stable and predictable financial environment for users.

World Liberty Financial also plans to make cryptocurrency more accessible to the public by making the platform’s interface and services very simple to navigate. 63% of the tokens will be made available for the public to make a purchase, giving them access to partake in the platform’s governance.

The remaining 37% of the tokens will be distributed between the team and user rewards. The timeline for the project launch is yet to be made known to the public.